An ancient book

The text is from a speech by the Athenian orator Hyperides (4th century BC). This copy was made in the 1st century AD.

From manuscript to print Ptolemy’s Syntaxis (a.k.a. Almagest)

A 9th-century manuscript copy

The standard modern printed

edition

The compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, for them that wolde haue knowlege of the

compost. (c. 1532)

The compost of Ptholomeus, prynce of astronomye: translated oute of Frenche in to Englysshe, very necessarye, vtile, and profytable, for all

suche, as desyre the knowledge of the science of astronomye. (c. 1562)